We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

We are not at war against Islam.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

God answers prayers, but he doesn’t always answer it your way.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

I serve God.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.